A/N: Estella is pulled away and lost from her dear brother. Years later,
Fredegar Bolger wants to get married, but is jailed before he gets a chance
to marry the hobbit of his dreams. Merry and Pippin come back to find the
Shire taken over by ruffians and drive them away. They free his dear friend
and help him find his wife and sister.
For My Estella
Chapter 1
"Fatty, Fatty! Two by four, your belly's bigger than the kitchen door!" shouted the hobbit children that gathered near Fredegar Bolger. The boys all laughed, while the girls giggled.
Estella turned around sharply and snarled at them. "Come on, Freddy! Don't listen to those nasty, mean boys!"
Fredegar Bolger hung his head and placed his hands into his pants pockets. He slowly walked away. His neck was gone from the double rolls of a thick flabby chin. His puffy cheeks glowed red from being so teased every where he went. His belly hung way pass the waistband of his pants. He had to wear thick spenders to keep them from fall off.
Lotho Sackville-Baggins wrapped his arm around the youth who had started the name calling and gave him a smile as he rubbed his head congratulating him.
Frodo Baggins stood next to Merry Brandybuck and watched the younger hobbits that had tease the chubby little boy. It made Frodo feel pity for Fredegar and hated it when the other children would tease him. Every where that Fredegar went in Hobbiton, it always ended in someone making fun of him. Frodo nodded to Merry and they began to follow Fredegar and his sister.
"Wait up, Freddy!" shouted Frodo as he ran to catch up with him.
Fredegar stopped and looked back to see Frodo racing towards him. Fredegar did not know the boy who followed Frodo, but he trusted Frodo that he would not make fun of him.
"Don't let those others hurt you by their teasing, Freddy!" said Frodo. "They are just silly children!"
"I know, Frodo!" said Fredegar. "It does not really bother me overly much!"
"This here is Merry Brandybuck," said Frodo as he introduced his cousin to him. "He is staying with me at Bag End. I'll be going back to Buckland with him at the end of summer."
"Hi, Merry!" said Fredegar and Estella together, but Fredegar lowing his eyes fearful that he would begin to laugh at him as well.
Estella smiled while she looked up at Merry and thought that he was the cutest boy that she had ever seen. He had a warm gentle face and wonderful kind smile. She loved the wavy light brown curls that hung just above his shoulders. When Estella looked up into his face she noticed the soft brown shade of his eyes.
"Nice to meet you Freddy. Frodo has been telling me all about you!" said Merry.
Fredegar stretched out his thick hand for Merry to shake it. Fredegar smiled as he looked up at Merry when he took his hand.
Frodo wiped his brow from sweating, because the summer day was becoming very hot. He looked down the road and wondered where his friend was off too. Frodo and Merry were planning to spend the hot afternoon swimming in the pond by Hobbiton. "Where are you heading on his hot summer day?"
Fredegar looked at Frodo and said shyly. "I'm heading home, Mama is gathering berries to make her canned jellies. I thought we better go see if she needed our help."
Merry looked at Frodo and shook his head not wanting to do any more work. He wanted to have fun this summer being away from Buckland and his parent's constant nagging him to finish his chores.
Merry nodded his head towards the pond to go swimming and Frodo caught his gesture. "If you're not needed to help pick the berries, Merry and I are going over to the pond to swim. You could join us if you wanted too!"
Fredegar imagined himself swimming with his shirt off and his pants legs rolled up. He knew it would only make the other children laugh and tease him all the more. "No thankee, Frodo. I better get back home!"
Frodo and Merry waved at Fredegar when he and his sister turned and walked away from them.
"Freddy, now those are nice boys! You should go with them swimming!" stated Estella.
Her brother just shook his head, No.
Fredegar continued slowly walking up the dirt path that headed towards his home. When he passed an open field he saw his mother with her basket in her arms.
Fredegar headed towards their mother while Estella ran to greet her.
"Mama!" shouted Estella as she ran through the tall grass. She pulled her skirt up high so she could run faster. Estella was four years younger than her brother who had reached his 10th birthday that was just last month. She was a slender lass, with long soft brown curls that bounced with each step she ran. She had big brown eyes and a warm gentle smile.
Estella was delighted to see her mother as she slowly approached her. She grabbed her hand when she caught up to her. Estella was very excited after seeing a good batch of berries that her mother had picked that grew wild in the wooded area.
The spring hardly rained at all and in the heat of the summer was making things dry up from lack of rain. Her mother had to walk a good distance to the small creek in the wooded area to find the berries. "Come on, Freddy!" shouted Estella. "You must hurry! I want to show you all the berries Mama found. Mama is going to make her finest jellies this evening!"
"Yes, Estella. I know all about Mama's jellies. It's just too hot to run!"
Rosamunda Bolger wiped her kerchief to her brow when her son caught to her. Her chubby cheeks and double chin was fiery red from her overweight stature and the heat. Her light brown curls hung wet about her brow from how badly she was sweating. Her neat tied bun began to fall underneath the crisp white kitchen bonnet that she worn on top of her head. She huffed and puffed looking at her son. "I never seen such a hot summer as this one!"
Fredegar looked inside his mother's basket and commented. "Looks like you have been successful in getting a good basket full of berries!"
Rosamunda nodded lifting her basket to show her son. "I had to walk a good distance, too. The bushes behind our home barely have any leaves let alone any berries this year. The heat is drying out everything. The only thing that seems to grow is the wooded area down by the creek. If we do not get rain soon, we'll lose them as well!"
Fredegar looked up towards the sky and could not spot any clouds. Only the hot summer sun that beat down upon them.
Taking his mother's basket, Fredegar walked his family back home.
~*~
Placing her basket on the table, Fredegar watched his mother take out the canning jars and pots to make her jelly. "Mama, it's almost too hot to be canning today! The house is already too hot to bare!"
Rosamunda nodded at her son and wiped her brow again. "Tomorrow is going to be just has hot. The berries will not keep and if the jelly isn't prepared now, we won't be having nothing for our cakes!"
Fredegar took the bucket of water and dumped it into the pot for his mother and began to wash the berries. She noticed her son sweating with his effort to help her. Feeling sorry for her dear son and wanting him to enjoy his day rather than being stuck in a hot kitchen all day, she turned to him. "You take Estella and go outside to play. It'll be much cooler outdoors than it is in here." Rosamunda opened the window wide and could feel the warm breeze coming inside her hot small kitchen. Fredegar smiled at his mother and walked over to his sister.
Fredegar took Estella's hand and they both walked outside. "So where would you want to go play?"
"Let go over to the clover patch. It's a much cooler little spot!" said Estella.
Fredegar watched his little sister running ahead of him while he just walked slowly following her.
Fredegar knew that her anticipation for her upcoming birthday is what kept her excited and joyful even through this hot summer day.
Fredegar sat down in the clover patch and was amazed how cool it felt just sitting there. Estella lying down on her stomach and propped herself up on her elbows. Stared up at her brother, she looked at him. "So what do you want to do now?"
"Nothing, just stay cool!" said Fredegar. He smiled at his sister as he watched her.
"How about going to the swimming pond! I hear the other children were all going over there this afternoon. That should keep us cool enough!" said Estella.
"No!" shouted Fredegar a bit harsh at his little sister.
Estella looked at her brother and saw his sad face. "Don't let their teasing stop you, Freddy?"
"It's pretty hard not, too!" said Fredegar as he took a plump arm and placed it down onto his lap and rested his chubby chin in his palm of his thick hand.
It broke Estella's heart seeing how miserable her brother was that the other children would not except him nor seen how special her dear brother was to her. She reached her arm out to him and gently stroked his hand. "It's okay, Freddy. I'm here and we can always play together. I love the games we think up!"
Fredegar smiled at his sister and thought about a fun game. "Let's see who can find the first four-leaf clover!"
Estella's eyes lit up with a big smile on her face. She quickly ran her fingers through the thick clover and began to count the three little leaves on each small stem.
On and on they searched the small field of clover. Fredegar watched his little sister as she searched as fast as she could. Fredegar look at one small clover and he taught he miss counted, but sure enough it was a four- leaf clover. He rushed to pick it making sure it had a long enough stem. He proudly held it up to his sister to announce that he had found it.
"Let me see it!" shouted Estella. "Freddy this is wonderful! You see now your luck will be changing. Hurry make a lucky wish!"
Fredegar giggled at seeing the excitement on his little sister's face and thought about how much he loved her. He closed his eyes tightly and thought about a lucky wish just for her. Saying to himself, 'I wish for Estella to always be as happy as she is now!'
"I know what you wished for, Freddy! I know it will come true for you!" stated Estella. "Now don't tell me what you wished for. By keeping it a secret will make it come true!"
Fredegar hugged his little sister, "I only hope that this special little wish will come true for me!"
"Let's go home and show Mama our four-leaf clover! Maybe she'll have the jelly done by now and we can have a small tasting of it," said Estella as she jumped to her feet in excitement.
Fredegar took his sister's hand as they both walked all the way back home again.
~*~
The next couple of days, Rosamunda had to go to the market and asked Fredegar to go with her. Their father was going to stay home today to rest and spend sometime with his six-year old daughter.
Rosamunda smiled at her son as she whispered to him. "Your sister's birthday is this weekend and we have to get her something really special at the shop in Hobbiton. I saw a small doll in the store last week and with the trade of my jellies, I should be able to get it."
Fredegar knew that was going to make Estella especially happy, because she would run into the store to make sure that the doll was still sitting on the shelf. She would touch the small wooden feet of the doll and stroke it's tiny little dress.
Fredegar had hoped to have enough coins in his pocket so he could afford to have the stone maker dip the clover in his silver, then it could be saved forever. He saw a special little chain that would make a wonderful necklace for his little sister. That way, she could always keep the four-leaf clover around her neck and always remember just how much he had loved her.
Fredegar was eager to see the stone maker.
When his mother went inside the store with her basket of jellies, Fredegar tip-toed away to the next store to talk to the stone maker. Opening his door, Fredegar strolled in and walked right up to the stone cutter. Fredegar pulled out the four-leaf clover and handed it to him. "I have a special request, Mr. Boffin. I have found a four-leaf clover the other day and pressed it in a book. It is nicely flatted and dried out. I was wondering if you could seal this clover in silver?"
Mr. Boffin examined the four-leaf clover carefully. "I'll have to fire my silver pot up to melt my silver. It'll cost you five pence for the silver!"
"Five Pence!" said Fredegar with a worried expression on his face. Five pence was all that he had in his pocket. "That all the coins I have! I wanted to buy that necklace so she could wear this clover around her neck for her birthday!"
Mr. Boffin looked at Fredegar and looked at his dirty floors and dusty countertops. "I'll tell you what, boy! You do the sweeping and dusting for me and I can see my way of giving you the small chain for a bracelet."
Fredegar thought a minute as he considered Mr. Boffin's offer. Fredegar nodded his head. "You got yourself a deal there, Mr. Boffin. I'll have your store clean as can be."
Fredegar grabbed the broom and began to sweep the dirt from the floor, while Mr. Boffin went into his back room to fire his silver pot.
When Fredegar finished with the sweeping. He took out the dusting cloth and began to dust all the shelves and countertops. One of Mr. Boffin's rings fell on the floor by accident from brushed it off with his dusting cloth. Fredegar chased after it as it rolled under a counter. Getting on all fours, Fredegar reached his thick hand under the counter to retrieve it trying to reach it.
He heard the front door open and he shouted. "I'll be with you in a minute!"
"So what do we have here?" snarled Lotho, who looked over the counter to see Fredegar's big back end greeting him. Hearing Lotho's voice, Fredegar snapped around quickly and tried to get to his feet. While he struggled in the effort, his seam of his pants suddenly ripped wide open. His face throbbed from being so embarrassed as Lotho held his stomach laughing. "Fatty, Fatty, two by four, his butt so big his pants tore! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Fredegar just stood there looking down to the ground not saying a word. Mr. Boffin hearing the commotion came out from behind the door from his worktable. Seeing Lotho teasing Fredegar made Mr. Boffin angry as he snapped at Lotho. "If you don't have business here, Lotho! I want you to leave this minute!"
"Oh, but I do have business here, Mr. Boffin. My mother, Lobelia has sent me to pick up her ring that you have repaired!" smiled Lotho in a sneer.
Mr. Boffin looked at the countertop where his last put the ring down, but it was not there. Fredegar opened his thick hand and gave it to Mr. Boffin.
"Thankee, Fredegar. You're a good lad!" said Mr. Boffin.
Handing Lotho the ring and taking his coin. He watched as Lotho turned and walked out of his store.
Fredegar just stood there motionless when Mr. Boffin returned to his worktable, while Fredegar finished dusting the shelves.
Mr. Boffin returned after a short period of time and shown Fredegar the four-leaf clove sealed in silver. It was beautiful and it sparkled from the new coat of silver. The silver leaves and thin silver stem looked delicate when Mr. Boffin attached a small ring so it could be attached to the bracelet.
Fredegar smiled at seeing the four-leaf clover on the chain of the bracelet and thought about his dear little sister's happy face when she would open this present.
Fredegar wrapped it in tissue paper and tucked it gently into his pocket. Seeing his mother walk pass the store, Fredegar quickly thanked Mr. Boffin and handed him his five coins. "Thankee, so much, Mr. Boffin! My sister is going to be so happy on her birthday!"
Fredegar turned quickly and walked out of the stone cutter's store. He called out to his mother, who turned and walked back over to greet her son. "So what were you doing in Mr. Boffin's store?" asked Rosamunda.
"Just getting Estella something very special for her seven birthday!" commented Fredegar.
He pulled the small tissue paper from his vest pocket and unwrapped it to show his mother.
"Oh, Freddy! Your sister is going to have such a wonderful birthday. She will especially love your gift!" said Rosamunda.
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For My Estella
Chapter 1
"Fatty, Fatty! Two by four, your belly's bigger than the kitchen door!" shouted the hobbit children that gathered near Fredegar Bolger. The boys all laughed, while the girls giggled.
Estella turned around sharply and snarled at them. "Come on, Freddy! Don't listen to those nasty, mean boys!"
Fredegar Bolger hung his head and placed his hands into his pants pockets. He slowly walked away. His neck was gone from the double rolls of a thick flabby chin. His puffy cheeks glowed red from being so teased every where he went. His belly hung way pass the waistband of his pants. He had to wear thick spenders to keep them from fall off.
Lotho Sackville-Baggins wrapped his arm around the youth who had started the name calling and gave him a smile as he rubbed his head congratulating him.
Frodo Baggins stood next to Merry Brandybuck and watched the younger hobbits that had tease the chubby little boy. It made Frodo feel pity for Fredegar and hated it when the other children would tease him. Every where that Fredegar went in Hobbiton, it always ended in someone making fun of him. Frodo nodded to Merry and they began to follow Fredegar and his sister.
"Wait up, Freddy!" shouted Frodo as he ran to catch up with him.
Fredegar stopped and looked back to see Frodo racing towards him. Fredegar did not know the boy who followed Frodo, but he trusted Frodo that he would not make fun of him.
"Don't let those others hurt you by their teasing, Freddy!" said Frodo. "They are just silly children!"
"I know, Frodo!" said Fredegar. "It does not really bother me overly much!"
"This here is Merry Brandybuck," said Frodo as he introduced his cousin to him. "He is staying with me at Bag End. I'll be going back to Buckland with him at the end of summer."
"Hi, Merry!" said Fredegar and Estella together, but Fredegar lowing his eyes fearful that he would begin to laugh at him as well.
Estella smiled while she looked up at Merry and thought that he was the cutest boy that she had ever seen. He had a warm gentle face and wonderful kind smile. She loved the wavy light brown curls that hung just above his shoulders. When Estella looked up into his face she noticed the soft brown shade of his eyes.
"Nice to meet you Freddy. Frodo has been telling me all about you!" said Merry.
Fredegar stretched out his thick hand for Merry to shake it. Fredegar smiled as he looked up at Merry when he took his hand.
Frodo wiped his brow from sweating, because the summer day was becoming very hot. He looked down the road and wondered where his friend was off too. Frodo and Merry were planning to spend the hot afternoon swimming in the pond by Hobbiton. "Where are you heading on his hot summer day?"
Fredegar looked at Frodo and said shyly. "I'm heading home, Mama is gathering berries to make her canned jellies. I thought we better go see if she needed our help."
Merry looked at Frodo and shook his head not wanting to do any more work. He wanted to have fun this summer being away from Buckland and his parent's constant nagging him to finish his chores.
Merry nodded his head towards the pond to go swimming and Frodo caught his gesture. "If you're not needed to help pick the berries, Merry and I are going over to the pond to swim. You could join us if you wanted too!"
Fredegar imagined himself swimming with his shirt off and his pants legs rolled up. He knew it would only make the other children laugh and tease him all the more. "No thankee, Frodo. I better get back home!"
Frodo and Merry waved at Fredegar when he and his sister turned and walked away from them.
"Freddy, now those are nice boys! You should go with them swimming!" stated Estella.
Her brother just shook his head, No.
Fredegar continued slowly walking up the dirt path that headed towards his home. When he passed an open field he saw his mother with her basket in her arms.
Fredegar headed towards their mother while Estella ran to greet her.
"Mama!" shouted Estella as she ran through the tall grass. She pulled her skirt up high so she could run faster. Estella was four years younger than her brother who had reached his 10th birthday that was just last month. She was a slender lass, with long soft brown curls that bounced with each step she ran. She had big brown eyes and a warm gentle smile.
Estella was delighted to see her mother as she slowly approached her. She grabbed her hand when she caught up to her. Estella was very excited after seeing a good batch of berries that her mother had picked that grew wild in the wooded area.
The spring hardly rained at all and in the heat of the summer was making things dry up from lack of rain. Her mother had to walk a good distance to the small creek in the wooded area to find the berries. "Come on, Freddy!" shouted Estella. "You must hurry! I want to show you all the berries Mama found. Mama is going to make her finest jellies this evening!"
"Yes, Estella. I know all about Mama's jellies. It's just too hot to run!"
Rosamunda Bolger wiped her kerchief to her brow when her son caught to her. Her chubby cheeks and double chin was fiery red from her overweight stature and the heat. Her light brown curls hung wet about her brow from how badly she was sweating. Her neat tied bun began to fall underneath the crisp white kitchen bonnet that she worn on top of her head. She huffed and puffed looking at her son. "I never seen such a hot summer as this one!"
Fredegar looked inside his mother's basket and commented. "Looks like you have been successful in getting a good basket full of berries!"
Rosamunda nodded lifting her basket to show her son. "I had to walk a good distance, too. The bushes behind our home barely have any leaves let alone any berries this year. The heat is drying out everything. The only thing that seems to grow is the wooded area down by the creek. If we do not get rain soon, we'll lose them as well!"
Fredegar looked up towards the sky and could not spot any clouds. Only the hot summer sun that beat down upon them.
Taking his mother's basket, Fredegar walked his family back home.
~*~
Placing her basket on the table, Fredegar watched his mother take out the canning jars and pots to make her jelly. "Mama, it's almost too hot to be canning today! The house is already too hot to bare!"
Rosamunda nodded at her son and wiped her brow again. "Tomorrow is going to be just has hot. The berries will not keep and if the jelly isn't prepared now, we won't be having nothing for our cakes!"
Fredegar took the bucket of water and dumped it into the pot for his mother and began to wash the berries. She noticed her son sweating with his effort to help her. Feeling sorry for her dear son and wanting him to enjoy his day rather than being stuck in a hot kitchen all day, she turned to him. "You take Estella and go outside to play. It'll be much cooler outdoors than it is in here." Rosamunda opened the window wide and could feel the warm breeze coming inside her hot small kitchen. Fredegar smiled at his mother and walked over to his sister.
Fredegar took Estella's hand and they both walked outside. "So where would you want to go play?"
"Let go over to the clover patch. It's a much cooler little spot!" said Estella.
Fredegar watched his little sister running ahead of him while he just walked slowly following her.
Fredegar knew that her anticipation for her upcoming birthday is what kept her excited and joyful even through this hot summer day.
Fredegar sat down in the clover patch and was amazed how cool it felt just sitting there. Estella lying down on her stomach and propped herself up on her elbows. Stared up at her brother, she looked at him. "So what do you want to do now?"
"Nothing, just stay cool!" said Fredegar. He smiled at his sister as he watched her.
"How about going to the swimming pond! I hear the other children were all going over there this afternoon. That should keep us cool enough!" said Estella.
"No!" shouted Fredegar a bit harsh at his little sister.
Estella looked at her brother and saw his sad face. "Don't let their teasing stop you, Freddy?"
"It's pretty hard not, too!" said Fredegar as he took a plump arm and placed it down onto his lap and rested his chubby chin in his palm of his thick hand.
It broke Estella's heart seeing how miserable her brother was that the other children would not except him nor seen how special her dear brother was to her. She reached her arm out to him and gently stroked his hand. "It's okay, Freddy. I'm here and we can always play together. I love the games we think up!"
Fredegar smiled at his sister and thought about a fun game. "Let's see who can find the first four-leaf clover!"
Estella's eyes lit up with a big smile on her face. She quickly ran her fingers through the thick clover and began to count the three little leaves on each small stem.
On and on they searched the small field of clover. Fredegar watched his little sister as she searched as fast as she could. Fredegar look at one small clover and he taught he miss counted, but sure enough it was a four- leaf clover. He rushed to pick it making sure it had a long enough stem. He proudly held it up to his sister to announce that he had found it.
"Let me see it!" shouted Estella. "Freddy this is wonderful! You see now your luck will be changing. Hurry make a lucky wish!"
Fredegar giggled at seeing the excitement on his little sister's face and thought about how much he loved her. He closed his eyes tightly and thought about a lucky wish just for her. Saying to himself, 'I wish for Estella to always be as happy as she is now!'
"I know what you wished for, Freddy! I know it will come true for you!" stated Estella. "Now don't tell me what you wished for. By keeping it a secret will make it come true!"
Fredegar hugged his little sister, "I only hope that this special little wish will come true for me!"
"Let's go home and show Mama our four-leaf clover! Maybe she'll have the jelly done by now and we can have a small tasting of it," said Estella as she jumped to her feet in excitement.
Fredegar took his sister's hand as they both walked all the way back home again.
~*~
The next couple of days, Rosamunda had to go to the market and asked Fredegar to go with her. Their father was going to stay home today to rest and spend sometime with his six-year old daughter.
Rosamunda smiled at her son as she whispered to him. "Your sister's birthday is this weekend and we have to get her something really special at the shop in Hobbiton. I saw a small doll in the store last week and with the trade of my jellies, I should be able to get it."
Fredegar knew that was going to make Estella especially happy, because she would run into the store to make sure that the doll was still sitting on the shelf. She would touch the small wooden feet of the doll and stroke it's tiny little dress.
Fredegar had hoped to have enough coins in his pocket so he could afford to have the stone maker dip the clover in his silver, then it could be saved forever. He saw a special little chain that would make a wonderful necklace for his little sister. That way, she could always keep the four-leaf clover around her neck and always remember just how much he had loved her.
Fredegar was eager to see the stone maker.
When his mother went inside the store with her basket of jellies, Fredegar tip-toed away to the next store to talk to the stone maker. Opening his door, Fredegar strolled in and walked right up to the stone cutter. Fredegar pulled out the four-leaf clover and handed it to him. "I have a special request, Mr. Boffin. I have found a four-leaf clover the other day and pressed it in a book. It is nicely flatted and dried out. I was wondering if you could seal this clover in silver?"
Mr. Boffin examined the four-leaf clover carefully. "I'll have to fire my silver pot up to melt my silver. It'll cost you five pence for the silver!"
"Five Pence!" said Fredegar with a worried expression on his face. Five pence was all that he had in his pocket. "That all the coins I have! I wanted to buy that necklace so she could wear this clover around her neck for her birthday!"
Mr. Boffin looked at Fredegar and looked at his dirty floors and dusty countertops. "I'll tell you what, boy! You do the sweeping and dusting for me and I can see my way of giving you the small chain for a bracelet."
Fredegar thought a minute as he considered Mr. Boffin's offer. Fredegar nodded his head. "You got yourself a deal there, Mr. Boffin. I'll have your store clean as can be."
Fredegar grabbed the broom and began to sweep the dirt from the floor, while Mr. Boffin went into his back room to fire his silver pot.
When Fredegar finished with the sweeping. He took out the dusting cloth and began to dust all the shelves and countertops. One of Mr. Boffin's rings fell on the floor by accident from brushed it off with his dusting cloth. Fredegar chased after it as it rolled under a counter. Getting on all fours, Fredegar reached his thick hand under the counter to retrieve it trying to reach it.
He heard the front door open and he shouted. "I'll be with you in a minute!"
"So what do we have here?" snarled Lotho, who looked over the counter to see Fredegar's big back end greeting him. Hearing Lotho's voice, Fredegar snapped around quickly and tried to get to his feet. While he struggled in the effort, his seam of his pants suddenly ripped wide open. His face throbbed from being so embarrassed as Lotho held his stomach laughing. "Fatty, Fatty, two by four, his butt so big his pants tore! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Fredegar just stood there looking down to the ground not saying a word. Mr. Boffin hearing the commotion came out from behind the door from his worktable. Seeing Lotho teasing Fredegar made Mr. Boffin angry as he snapped at Lotho. "If you don't have business here, Lotho! I want you to leave this minute!"
"Oh, but I do have business here, Mr. Boffin. My mother, Lobelia has sent me to pick up her ring that you have repaired!" smiled Lotho in a sneer.
Mr. Boffin looked at the countertop where his last put the ring down, but it was not there. Fredegar opened his thick hand and gave it to Mr. Boffin.
"Thankee, Fredegar. You're a good lad!" said Mr. Boffin.
Handing Lotho the ring and taking his coin. He watched as Lotho turned and walked out of his store.
Fredegar just stood there motionless when Mr. Boffin returned to his worktable, while Fredegar finished dusting the shelves.
Mr. Boffin returned after a short period of time and shown Fredegar the four-leaf clove sealed in silver. It was beautiful and it sparkled from the new coat of silver. The silver leaves and thin silver stem looked delicate when Mr. Boffin attached a small ring so it could be attached to the bracelet.
Fredegar smiled at seeing the four-leaf clover on the chain of the bracelet and thought about his dear little sister's happy face when she would open this present.
Fredegar wrapped it in tissue paper and tucked it gently into his pocket. Seeing his mother walk pass the store, Fredegar quickly thanked Mr. Boffin and handed him his five coins. "Thankee, so much, Mr. Boffin! My sister is going to be so happy on her birthday!"
Fredegar turned quickly and walked out of the stone cutter's store. He called out to his mother, who turned and walked back over to greet her son. "So what were you doing in Mr. Boffin's store?" asked Rosamunda.
"Just getting Estella something very special for her seven birthday!" commented Fredegar.
He pulled the small tissue paper from his vest pocket and unwrapped it to show his mother.
"Oh, Freddy! Your sister is going to have such a wonderful birthday. She will especially love your gift!" said Rosamunda.
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